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Second Edition
By
Lawrence Friedman, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA, USA; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor
of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Assistant Chief of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Emmet Keeffe, MD, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; Chief of Hepatology, Co-Director, Liver Transplant Program, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Description
Here's instant access to the symptoms, signs, differential diagnosis, and treatment for the full range of liver disorders. Written by
an international 'who's who' of hepatology?and now in full color?this new 2nd Edition provides readers with top-notch, authoritative
guidance they can count on!
Audience
Gastroenterologists, Internists, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Hepatologists
Contents
1. Assessment of liver function and diagnostic studies
2. Acute liver failure
3. Acute viral hepatitis
4. Chronic viral hepatitis
5.
Autoimmune hepatitis
6. Alcoholic liver disease
7. Fatty liver and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
8. Drug-induced and toxic liver
disease
9. Cirrhosis and portal hypertension: an overview
10. Portal hypertension and gastrointestinal bleeding
11. Ascites
and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
12. Hepatorenal syndrome
13. Hepatic encephalopathy
14. Primary biliary cirrhosis
15.
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
16. Hemochromatosis
17. Wilson's disease and related disorders
18. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
and other metabolic liver diseases
19. Budd-Chiari syndrome and other vascular disorders
20. The liver in heart failure
21.
The liver in pregnancy
22. The liver in systemic disease
23. Pediatric liver disease
24. Liver disease in the elderly
25.
HIV and the liver
26. Granulomatous liver disease
27. Hepatic tumours
28. Hepatic abscesses and cysts
29. Other infections
involving the liver
30. Surgery in the patient with liver disease and postoperative jaundice
31. Liver transplantation
32.
Cholelithiasis and cholecystitis
33. Diseases of the bile ducts
34. Tumors of the biliary tract
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 496 pages, publication date: APR-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-06633-7
ISBN-10: 0-443-06633-7
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 30 Oct 2009
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